Offered

Hapless plans for
glad-handed panhandler.

Sifting through frayed remains --
reminders of unravelled travels.

This sojourn -- a journey of
burned yearning, turning worse,

spurned, until I adjourn
to her antechamber's lecturn,

spilling forth all that is worth
to offer what I've pondered,

in thoughts begotten and lost
to her endgame, star-crossed.

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